Café Society is a comedy of manners: well-dressed, upper-class gentlemen and ladies, living life without a care, but every move carefully crafted, every sentence uttered with perfect inflection. It’s not a film for everyone, but it’s a very typical Woody Allen period piece with pizzazz. The sets and the costumes are spot-on, and the story is what we would call typical of the generation and social class it portrays.
Bad Moms is balls to the walls, flat out funny comedy that mocks the “Stepford Wives” stereotype of a good mother when one character gets fed up with being a good mom and goes rogue. The language is over-the-top and in your face, but the actual storyline is solid and makes a good point about being true to one’s self, rather than trying to live up to a false ideal.
Florence Jenkins is a poignant story of a woman who contracted syphilis from her new husband on her wedding night and is in the final stages of the mental after-effects as she faces her death. She is pleasantly out of touch with reality and quite charming, lavishing affection on everyone with whom she comes in contact. Hugh Grant plays Jenkins’ husband with just the right touch of warmth, kindness, and love without being obsequious.
Three different films, but one thread in common – live life to its fullest the first time around because there is no do-over.
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